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The emails and voice mails to Dodge City, Kan., Mayor Joyce Warshaw began pouring in last month, after the city commission voted to require everyone in town to wear masks indoors.
Some anonymous messages told her that she was restricting civil liberties, Warshaw told The Washington Post. Others said she should go to jail over her vote.
But after the western Kansas city’s uphill battle against the coronavirus pandemic was featured in a USA Today feature on Friday, the messages grew more frequent and more aggressive: Burn in hell. Get murdered. One person simply wrote, “We’re coming for you.”